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SUBJECT: BATISTA, Laureano

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13 December 1967

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ALLEGATION: > "GIA CONNECTION:

Rudolph Richard DAVIS, Cuban - 7 - “Laureano BATISTA, Secretary

exile questioned ty GARRISON's staff of Military Affairs, Executive

in connection with a training ¢ Committee, Movimiento Democratica
for Cubans at Lacombe, Louisiana ® Cristiano (MDC), Miami, was
told the FBI in May 1964 that Laurearo granted a Provisional Operational
BATISTA, sent him 19 men from Miami in Approval on 30 December 1959

response to a request.from DAVIS in ; and an Operational fpproval on
1963. The men stayed at a home near - 20 February 1960 for use as a

Lacombe, Louisiana... _ PP Agent, Havana, Cuba.

SOURCE:
Memorandum No. 5, Enclosures 3 al

and 7. RETURN To CIA

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diy goubdecty @ 32 year old Cuban exile, was froma wealthy Cuban. -
family and in Cuba he was a banker. He was granted a POA in December
1959 and an OA in February 1960 for use 48 a PP agent in Havana, Cuba.

A copy of a letter in Subject's file datea 20 November 1963
signed by Subject as Secretary for Military Affairs, Executive Committee,
Movimiento Democrata Cristiano is addressed to Major General Bela K.
KTRALY, President, Hungarian Freedom Fighters Federation, Inc., and
offered the services of the MDC in arranging meetings and discussions
with other anti-CASTRO organizations and the Hungarian Freedom Fighters.
The Hungarian Freedom Fighters were (Agency sponsored and Covert Action e¥
Starfijwas interested in information‘on the MDC before granting approval
for contact between the two organizations. ;

DETAILS:

During an interview with the FBI in October 1963 in New York
Rudolph Richard DAVIS advised that in January 1961 he was in New York
where he served as coordinator between the MDC and the New York Police
Department. DAVIS also said that some nineteen men had been sent from .

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*  . ‘Miami to New Orleans by Laureano BATISTA in response to a request
by. DAVIS for men to work in a lumber business with which he was
connected. in Guatemala. The men stayed at a home near Lacombe,
louisiana. When the FBI seized dynamite and other explosives

nearby, the men became disgruntled and were unwilling to proceed to
Guatemala. So the lumber company paid their fare back to Miami.

Some of the names of these men were as follows: Victor
PANEQUE, Leodorino INTERIAN, Fernando FERNANDEZ, and fnu FORNES.

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